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• The GOP 2012 Fantasy League (The Atlantic Wire)
• Peter King Pushes Rudy Giuliani into the 2012 Race (The Atlantic Wire)
• Medicare overhaul proposal causing GOP stress (AP)
• Obama and Cameron to stress united effort on Libya (Reuters)
• Republican introduces bill, will vote against it (AFP)
• Obama's War on Whistle-Blowers (The Atlantic Wire)
• $1 trillion on the table in U.S. debt talks (Reuters)
• Biden: Revenues needed as part of debt limit bill (AP)
• Little in Netanyahu speech to revive talks: analysts (AFP)
• Senate moves to force vote on Patriot Act (AP)
• Is Apollo Still a Valid Model to Explore Space 50 Years After JFK's Speech? (ContributorNetwork)
• Calif. county to replace headstones bearing N-word (AP)
• Quinn Asks Obama to Declare Southern Illinois Federal Flood Disaster Area (ContributorNetwork)
• Missouri Senators Finally Converge on Joplin (ContributorNetwork)
• Democrats courting Warren for Senate (AP)
• Heckler briefly interrupts Israeli PM speech (AP)
• Hotel workers need panic buttons: New York lawmaker (Reuters)
• Netanyahu: Israel ready for painful compromises (AP)

The GOP 2012 Fantasy League (The Atlantic Wire) Posted: 24 May 2011 12:50 PM PDT The Atlantic Wire - The 2012 Republican primary campaign has gotten off to a late and not-great start. Tim Pawlenty, Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, and Jon Huntsman make up pundits' top tier, though not necessarily voters'. Pundits like Fred Malek say the GOP field is set, but many Republicans can't help but fantasizing that there's a better candidate out there, somewhere, a dude who'll sweep conservatives off their feet but also charm the independents into letting them stay out past curfew, maybe overhaul a few entitlements. Some had hoped Mitch Daniels would be that boy, but he opted out last weekend. Fantasy is always more appealing than reality. With the current crop wannabes failing to live up to the hopes of Republican supporters who want to unseat Obama, there's always the couldabes: the remaining GOP crushes that maybe, just maybe jump into the race. Chris Christie, Jeb Bush, Rudy Giuliani, Marco Rubio, and Paul Ryan: will any of them ask us out?

Peter King Pushes Rudy Giuliani into the 2012 Race (The Atlantic Wire) Posted: 24 May 2011 10:40 AM PDT The Atlantic Wire -

Medicare overhaul proposal causing GOP stress (AP) Posted: 24 May 2011 04:31 PM PDT AP - Little more than a month after they backed sweeping changes to Medicare, Republicans are on the political defensive, exhibiting significant internal strains for the first time since last fall's election gains.

Obama and Cameron to stress united effort on Libya (Reuters) Posted: 24 May 2011 04:29 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday will stress a united effort to pressure Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to step down, while glossing over differences between their two governments.

Republican introduces bill, will vote against it (AFP) Posted: 24 May 2011 03:37 PM PDT AFP - Republican Representative Dave Camp introduced legislation Tuesday to raise the US debt ceiling, but he plans to vote against it because he also wants the bill to include drastic budget cuts.

Obama's War on Whistle-Blowers (The Atlantic Wire) Posted: 24 May 2011 03:35 PM PDT The Atlantic Wire - The Justice Department's subpoena of New York Times reporter James Risen Monday was the latest sign of how aggressive the Obama administration is being in its campaign against government whistle-blowers. The purpose of Risen's subpoena is to force him to testify that Jeffrey Sterling, a former CIA agent, gave him confidential information about the CIA's efforts to sabotage Iran's nuclear program. The extent to which the administration is prosecuting leakers has troubled those who see leakers as speakers of truth to power. "In President Obama’s 26 months in office, civilian and military prosecutors have charged five people in cases involving leaking information, more than all previous presidents combined," reports the Times. Here's a list of prominent leakers with various agendas currently under pressure from the government.

$1 trillion on the table in U.S. debt talks (Reuters) Posted: 24 May 2011 05:08 PM PDT Reuters - U.S. lawmakers are weighing $1 trillion in deficit-cutting measures as part of a possible deal that would allow an increase in the country's borrowing authority, Vice President Joe Biden said on Tuesday.

Biden: Revenues needed as part of debt limit bill (AP) Posted: 24 May 2011 04:50 PM PDT AP - Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday that new revenues need to be part of any agreement with Republicans on legislation to raise the limit on how much money the government can borrow to continue to meet its obligations.

Little in Netanyahu speech to revive talks: analysts (AFP) Posted: 24 May 2011 04:49 PM PDT AFP - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received 31 standing ovations from the US Congress, and yet he may have failed in his primary goal -- averting a unilateral Palestinian bid for statehood.

Senate moves to force vote on Patriot Act (AP) Posted: 24 May 2011 04:42 PM PDT AP - The Senate on Tuesday moved toward approval of a four-year extension of a contentious anti-terrorism law after Senate leaders cut off efforts by both conservatives and liberals to change aspects of the law they said were a threat to civil and privacy rights.

Is Apollo Still a Valid Model to Explore Space 50 Years After JFK's Speech? (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 24 May 2011 04:38 PM PDT ContributorNetwork - Fifty years ago, on May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy stood before a joint session of the Congress and spoke the following words that launched a great but all too brief age of lunar exploration.

Calif. county to replace headstones bearing N-word (AP) Posted: 24 May 2011 04:34 PM PDT AP - Supervisors in a Northern California county voted Tuesday to replace 36 gravestones that bear the N-word, giving the green light to state, county and community officials to design an alternative.

Quinn Asks Obama to Declare Southern Illinois Federal Flood Disaster Area (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 24 May 2011 03:18 PM PDT ContributorNetwork - According to a press release from the State of Illinois government website, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has sent a request to President Barack Obama asking him to declare 14 Southern Illinois counties major federal disaster areas. Gov. Quinn sent the request in order to help residents and businesses recover from the massive flooding that occurred in the beginning of the month that was deemed the worst flooding the area had seen in nearly 80 years.

Missouri Senators Finally Converge on Joplin (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 24 May 2011 03:18 PM PDT ContributorNetwork - When Missouri officials were releasing the newest figures of the dead and injured Monday afternoon, Gov. Jay Nixon spoke. Congressman Billy Long was also there to show his support as he flew in from his job in Washington. President Barack Obama is scheduled to speak Sunday after his official state visit to Great Britain and Ireland.

Democrats courting Warren for Senate (AP) Posted: 24 May 2011 03:02 PM PDT AP - Democrats desperate to find a strong challenger to popular GOP Sen. Scott Brown in Massachusetts are actively courting consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren to jump into the race.

Heckler briefly interrupts Israeli PM speech (AP) Posted: 24 May 2011 02:55 PM PDT AP - A heckler briefly interrupted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress before U.S. Capitol police removed the protester from the chamber.

Hotel workers need panic buttons: New York lawmaker (Reuters) Posted: 24 May 2011 02:50 PM PDT Reuters - New York hotel workers would have electronic "panic buttons" under a new bill proposed after then-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was charged with sexually assaulting a hotel maid.

Netanyahu: Israel ready for painful compromises (AP) Posted: 24 May 2011 02:42 PM PDT AP - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a cheering U.S. Congress on Tuesday he was willing to make "painful compromises" for peace with the Palestinians, but he offered little concrete to entice Palestinians back to the bargaining table.

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